Species within a genus

Genus: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

CYPERUS (G, La)
Matjiesgoed (Le)
Family: CYPERACEAE

kupeiron, kupeiros, = a marsh-plant.
(a rush or sedge)
(LS, Le)

Cyperus thunbergii
Monkey Bulb, Aapuintjie (Vo)
Location: (F, K, P)

For Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828),** Swedish botanist and physician who travelled as surgeon with ships of the Dutch East India Company and did extensive botanical exploration in southern Africa and Japan. He was a student of Linnaeus, one of his so-called apostles and perhaps his foremost disciple, a plant collector and explorer, and after his travelling years was a professor of botany and medicine at Uppsala.
(Ch)